Left groups and people

Chris Bambery’s ‘The Left and the crisis’, a critique

Author: 
Tom Unterrainer

The political and economic consequences of the still-unfolding ‘crisis’ are many and varied. The ‘creative’ – as well as the destructive - function of capitalism in crisis is immense but in a number of instances, the trends and material realities we see around us can be traced far further back than 2008. The crisis has simply thrown them into sharp relief.